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'Overnutrition crisis' is lecture topic, March 13

Posted March 9, 2006; 08:39 p.m.

by Eric Quiñones

"Diet in Decline: Can America's Overnutrition Crisis be Reversed?"
is the subject of a lecture scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 13,
in 16 Robertson Hall.

The lecture will be given by Kelly Brownell, chair of the Department of
Psychology at Yale University, and Roger Platt, director of school
health for New York City.

Brownell also serves as director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and
Obesity at Yale and as a professor of epidemiology and public health.
He is the co-author (with Katherine Battle Horgen) of "Food Fight: The
Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis and What We
Can Do About It" and has written numerous books and articles on obesity
and weight management.

Platt has been director of school health for New York City since 2003.
He oversees all health services and health policy issues for the city's
public school system, which serves more than 1 million students.
Previously, Platt held faculty and senior management positions at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard
Community Health Plan and Mount Sinai Medical Center.